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Lufthansa knew six years ago that the co-pilot of the passenger plane that crashed in the French Alps last week had suffered from a "serious depressive episode," the German airline said Tuesday. The airline said that as part of its internal research it found emails that Andreas Lubitz sent to the Lufthansa flight school in Bremen when he resumed his training there in 2009 after an interruption of several months. In them, he informed the school, where he had started studying in 2008, that he had suffered a "serious depressive episode," which had since subsided. The airline said Lubitz subsequently passed all medical checks and that it has provided...

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